US President, Mr Barack Obama on Wednesday evening, called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on hotline for the last time during his term in office and thanked him for his cooperation. The two leaders, known for their close ties and understanding, reviewed with satisfaction the significant all round progress and cooperation in ties between India and the US in the ...

Bollywood actor Salman Khan was today acquitted of all charges in the Arms Act case over the alleged poaching of two black bucks in Kankani village near Jodhpur, way back in 1998. His lawyer H M Saraswat said the court admitted their arguments that the actor was framed in the case without strong evidence. Salman Khan is facing four cases ...

Unlike his precedents, Donal Trump would be sworn in on Friday, January 24, 2017, not in the midst of celebrities from the Hollywood, top musicians or socialites present. Even the menu for the inaugural lunch would be Maine lobster, Gulf shrimp, and Seven Hills Angus steak among others. While food is not the White House forte as the Joint Congressional ...

Regent’s University London has launched the first equestrian polo scholarship in the UK as part of a drive to support student excellence and bolster a global reputation in the sport. Two undergraduate polo scholarship places, worth 15% of a successful student’s chosen programme fees, are being offered annually to applicants who can demonstrate potential and excellence in polo. To achieve ...

Telugu star Chiranjeevi’s comeback film "Khaidi No 150" finished the first weekend with Rs.106 crore in box office collections, with a message to his detractors that the Boss is Back and with a Bang. The film, produced by his son Ram Charan and released on January 11, was going houseful throughout the weekend raking in money that was never seen ...

Finally, the details about Kim Kardashian’s home robbery that made headlines in October have come to public domain with the police report made avaialble on the French website Le Journal du Dimanche. Last week 17 people were arrested and 10 of them have been charged with the heist. Here are key takeaways from her police report: Both Kim and her ...

Jealous wives who are upset with their husbnads giving more attention to someone else, whether a co-worker or a neighbour, can be dealt with a retail therapy, says a researcher from Singapore. Researcher Xun (Irene) Huang tried to probe whether these feelings of jealousy motivated consumers to buy things that were more likely to recapture the attention of their partners. ...

As the Election Commission decided to keep the Samajwadi Party symbol cycle in abeyance, neither of the two father-son groups can use it in electioneering but father Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said he would contest against his son, unfolding an open war. Mualaym Singh also said his son is indulging in communal politics, distancing Muslims as his list of ...

India’s apex court on Wednesday allowed a 23-year-old Mumbai woman to abort her 24-week-old foetus as it had no skill and doctors said it would endanger her life. Usually, abortion of foetus aged more than 20 weeks is not allowed and in this case it was over 23 weeks, making it mandatory to seek permission from the Supreme Court to ...

More than the world numbers, the wealth concentration in few individuals in India is alarming with merely 84 billionaires owning wealth worth $248 billion, led by Mukesh Ambani ($9.3 billion), Dilip Shanghvi ($16.7 billion) and Azim Premji ($15 billion) among others. The glaring rich and poor divide is vivid from the corporate world. A top IT firm CEO in India ...

Within few months after Arnab Goswami’s exit from Times Now, another major News anchor and senior NDTV journalist Barkha Dutt announced her decision to move on for a new venture on Sunday on Twitter. She may start her own venture after making it big on NDTV for 16 years and reaching stardom with her live coverage of Kargil War from ...

As Indian PM Narendra Modi replaced Gandhi’s face on Khadi calendar of 2017, the US e-commerce giant Amazon has gone a step ahead to sell slippers with Gandhi face on them, ridiculing the face of India. Called ‘Gandhi flip flops’, Amazon describes them as “foam rubber flip flops” with Gandhi face and priced $16.99 (Rs.1,200). This is the second ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will release 10 satellites in low-Earth orbit for Iridium, a global leader in mobile voice and data satellite communications, with a mandate to release 60 more Iridium’s next generation global satellite. The Iridium NEXT mission will be launched by Space X Falcom 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ...

Keen on doing exercise and taking a power walk? Not while using your smartphone, says a study. Turn off your cell phone, advises Michael Rebold, assistant professor of integrative exercise science at Hiram College. In two recent studies published by Computers in Human Behavior and Performance Enhancement and Health, Rebold and researchers from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania revealed that talking or ...

Based on private health insurance claims with a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, a study said the incidence of the disease has more than doubled in the pediatric population or children aged 0 to 22 years. Between 2011 and 2015, diabetes among children and yougnsters increased 109 percent, according to data from FAIR Health, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing transparency to ...

Eating blue corn may decrease the risk factor from metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, said a new study. The research undertaken by an Indian origin scientist and his team from the University of Central Florida in collaboration with researchers from Universidad Veracruzana and Instituto Tecnologico de Veracruz in Mexico, found in their study of rats the blue corn ...

Scientists from Duke University have found a strain of salmonella that causes food poisoning but useful in fighting glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. The blood-brain barrier that separtates brain tissue from its blood vessels makes it difficult to send drugs to kill diseases in brain and often brain surgery fails to entirely remove such cells. Only 10 ...

Gondwana land or Indian subcontinent remained isolated for 30 million years before thrusting itself north to give rise to Himalayas — is not a theory in tact but there are some missing middle in it, showed a research by a group of researchers from Germany, Poland and India. Based on tiny insect fossils near Surat, which are similar to fossils ...

‘Gautamiputra Satakarni’, the 100 th film in Nandamuri Balakrishna’s film career has hit the bull’s eye with the opening day’s collections reaching Rs.20 crore and several theatres and malls reporting full sales of tickets. Though released a day after Chiranjeevi’s ‘Khaidi No 150’ that earned more than Rs.40.81 crore on its opening day. it was able to crack it half-way ...